What Is a Woman? and the rise of liberal intolerance
by Nick Tyrone, spiked:
The attempts to suppress Matt Walsh’s documentary are nothing to celebrate.
American conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman? is an online documentary about transgenderism. In the doc, Walsh tours America, asking trans activists, academics and others the eponymous question, ‘What is a woman?’. This invariably prompts evasive and confused answers on the part of his interviewees – and exposes the incoherence and contradictions of trans ideology as a whole.
Originally released last year, What Is a Woman? was due to be re-released via the Daily Wire’s Twitter account last Thursday to coincide with the start of Pride month. But then something strange happened.
First, Twitter limited the visibility of the tweet showing the film. This meant it didn’t show up on users’ timelines and couldn’t be retweeted, liked or commented on. Apart from deleting a tweet altogether, this is the most severe measure Twitter can impose on an account. According to the CEO of the Daily Wire, Twitter staff considered the film to be ‘hateful’ because it contains two instances of ‘misgendering’.
Then Twitter owner Elon Musk intervened. He bypassed his own company’s decision to limit access to the doc, and quote-tweeted it from his own account. ‘Every parent should watch this’, he said.
Soon after Musk’s intervention, Twitter made What Is a Woman? visible and it has now been watched 157million times on Twitter. This just goes to show that attempting to cancel something will invariably draw in the crowds.
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